[fedora-india] About Pre-requisite of Hackfest

[sankarshan]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Giriraj Sharma
<giriraj.sharma27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The main idea and theme of hackfest would still remain Contribution to Open
> Source for extreme beginners and how to get started[1] with it easily.
>
> [1]
> http://blog.hackerearth.com/2014/03/how-to-get-started-with-open-source.html

Sayan writes a fine post. If the participants in the hackfest need an
introduction to Open Source, then it is less of a "hack" fest and more
of a "here's how you can start, let's pick these easy topics to learn
all the basic skills". I have a reasonable aversion to terming every
event as a "hack" fest but that is probably because I am old.

And if that is indeed the objective, then the organizer needs to have
a (i) good grasp of easy topics to target and solve (ii) existing
relationships with various projects within Fedora to make necessary
introductions and sponsor new candidates into such activities (iii)
have a method in place to follow up beyond this event. Coaching new
participants into sustaining contributors is a long ball game. The
first event is just the jump-off point.


-- 
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>